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I'm going to be out for the next few days getting the rotator cuff on my right shoulder repaired. While I'm out, a few other folks are going to be guest blogging.
First up is Sharon Laivand, a Senior Program Manager in our Microsoft...

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As many of you know Azure MFA can be deployed in two modes, either directly inside of Azure AD in the cloud, or using our Azure MFA server, connected to on-premises ADFS and/or RADIUS servers. This second deployment option is VERY popular...

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Since announcing Azure Active Directory's support for managing shared company accounts for Twitter, Facebook and more , we've received a ton of interest and feedback. Given many of the recent high-profile takeovers of company owned...

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In my day job here at Microsoft, I don't get to write much code anymore, but every once in a while when I do, my language of choice is JavaScript.
So I am very excited today because I get to announce that ADAL for JavaScript v1.0...

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It's been a while since I provided an update on Cloud App Discovery. There's just been a ton of other news to cover so I've been a bit neglectful.
Cloud App discovery is our fastest growing feature in terms of customer adoption...

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One of the topics I get asked about all the time is the roadmap for Azure Access Control Service (ACS).
Today I want to share some of the details of our plans for merging ACS into Azure AD and in particular for maintaining our identity...

[This post was updated on 3/3/2015 to include details about SAML-P apps]
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One of the question we're hearing regularly from our developer community is "How can I optimize the sign in experience to my app so that end-users immediately...

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Today I'm happy tell you about a new set of features we've just GA'd. These features make it easy for developers to build daemon applications which call the Office 365 Mail, Calendar and Contacts APIs.
At TechEd Europe 2014...

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Today I have the cool opportunity to tell you about two new features we've just put into preview:
Conditional Access for SaaS Apps
Azure AD Connect Health
Both of these new features have been high on the list of requests...

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Today's blog post is a topic that I'm personally very excited about, our partnership with Smartsheet. Smartsheet is a pretty cool cloud based project management and collaboration service and they've just turned on their integration...

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A few months back, I told you that we added support for "Bring Your Own Device" scenarios in Active Directory when we turned on Workplace Join support for Windows 8 PC's and iOS devices.
Today I'm happy to let you know...

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Today's blog is a little different – it about a preview that's been live for a while now, but which we haven't previously blogged about. So many of you probably didn't even know it is available!
Back in late November we...

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We're starting off the year with two pieces of news for developers writing apps for Azure AD:
1. A new set of Azure AD Graph client libraries for .Net, Android and iOS
2. An updated version of the Azure AD Graph...

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Today I'm pleased to announce the preview release of two new features of the Azure AD authorization platform: group claims and application roles.
As of Monday (12/15), 5565 third party and custom LOB applications (note: this number...

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Back in August I posted a blog announcing the beta release of Azure AD Connect. Since then we have received a lot of feedback and made improvements in AAD Connect and AAD Sync, including multi forest support and password write back .
...

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It's been quite a year here for us on the Azure AD team. We now have over 4 million organizations using Azure AD and as of yesterday, we've just completed our 1 TRILLIONTH authentication.
And with the general availability (GA...

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Over the past few months, as more and more of you use the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) capabilities of Azure AD Premium, you've requested and option to let employees keep the mobile phone...

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Two week ago I blogged about how your can solve issues with shared account management using our cool new password-based single sign-on (SSO) capability for groups. Today I want to let you know how you can get SSO to Azure AD connected SAAS...

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Back in April, we blogged about the vNext release of Microsoft Identity Manager (a.k.a. "MIM", the product formerly known as Forefront Identity Manager).
Today I have the privilege to let you know that we have released the...

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Early this morning, we closed on our agreement to acquire Aorato. Aorato has done some incredibly innovative work to use Active Directory to monitor and detect anomalous user behavior inside of corporate networks. You...

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Catching up on some news your may have not been aware of with today's post.
Azure AD the leader in KuppingerCole leadership compass report
First, I'm excited to let you know that we were recently cited as the leader in the Cloud...

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Starting off for the week with a bang, we've just turned on a new set of features in Azure AD that give companies a simple way to manage access to their social media accounts on services like Twitter and Facebook. We've done this...

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The TechEd Europe 2014 news just keeps on coming!
Less than 2 months ago we announced the GA of version 2 of ADAL .NET , the development library that makes it easy to use Active Directory (both Azure and Windows Server) in your .NET,...

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Next up in our news for TechEd Europe are two cool new capabilities in our app access panel.
One of the things many of our larger customers care about is providing a customized employee experience when accessing and signing into SaaS...

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Next in the lineup of the cool news we're sharing this week is a set of enhancements we've added to the preview of the Azure AD Application Proxy. Azure AD Proxy is lightweight and fast way to give employees and partners in your...